I just needed to rant briefly.
Coming to Daily Kos is an important part of my morning ritual, just as it's an important part of my "before going to bed" ritual. In the morning, I'd rather check the Rec list for substantive diaries - which might actually start me on the pursuit of the day's news - before even reading the online newspaper.
But...
What a disappointment.
Of the eight diaries on the Rec list, four of them are the same "he said she said" meta pie fights (that were there when I went to bed) about whether or not the Health Insurance "Reform" bill is a POS, and a fifth is yet another in the redundant series of photo feeds depicting an oh-so-stylish Michelle and an oh-so-pensive and serious Barack as if we're viewing a slideshow of our neighbor's wedding as shown on one of those digital picture frame thingies sitting on the coffee table.
Where is the content? Where is the information?
Where is substance?
Please don't rec this diary...just tip me, because I am a mojo whore. But I'm asking not to be part of the "Meta Kill-the-Rec-List-Fest".
But please stop reccing those other diaries too! PLEASE! It isn't so bad that these diaries make the Rec list; they're obviously important to some people, and I'm glad that they were on the Rec list so that I could notice and read all five.
Last night.
Twelve hours later thay're still here.
TWELVE DAMN HOURS. And there's nothing new in them except pie fights and territory-staking.
Even the always-controversial pootie diaries usually only take up space on the Rec list for a few hours.
So, can we please do the "community moderation" we keep talking about and have the sense to stop rec'ing diaries that have clearly lost their significance? Maybe stop after the first four hours or so?
Please?